Twitter offers accounts, you sign up with your name or a fake name, you start to tweet and keep it going by logging in and tweeting.
Some (bots?) sign up with a name, they never tweet and never log in again (!) for years.
The sum of all those dead accounts, 'dead' usernames, is approx. 1.5 billion and will be deleted (like luggage in the lost-and-founds which was never claimed), therefore those names will be freed and available again. = Name space
Probably a lot of these 1.5 billion names are bots, artificial accounts, only used to enlarge the follower numbers of special people and simulate significance where it is only a big lie.
Very probably the numbers of some important accounts (think senile residents) will drop into the basement where it all started. :-)
I wonder how this will play out in terms of lawsuits. You have the Reeeee crowd running around sneering that Musk is losing advertisers and revenue. However, Twitter was selling ad space based on 'look at the reach you'll have because our platform is so popular!' Basically fraud. (How much money was the C-suite making again?)
Not that I am expecting the SEC to do anything but if this had ever been a legit business, they should.
You don't need the SEC to do something about it. You can claim fraud and sue them directly if you are an advertiser. But you need something substantive to survive pre-trial motions. You can't just claim they lied. Elon needs to drop those receipts. Then it will be open season.
I've had a twitter account for over a decade and have never tweeted. I follow a few accounts for things like alternate side parking notifications, weather warnings, and a few others for various product or event announcements. Seems lame that I will now have to tweet at some unspecified interval in order to keep my account alive.
Mmmm….if you have log-in activity you are probably OK. I dont know that for sure, but if I was on the purge team, I would make sure we didnt purge folks like you, of which Im certain there are millions. Elon wont let that happen.
I have no idea what this means exactly. Layman term?
Twitter offers accounts, you sign up with your name or a fake name, you start to tweet and keep it going by logging in and tweeting.
Some (bots?) sign up with a name, they never tweet and never log in again (!) for years.
The sum of all those dead accounts, 'dead' usernames, is approx. 1.5 billion and will be deleted (like luggage in the lost-and-founds which was never claimed), therefore those names will be freed and available again. = Name space
Probably a lot of these 1.5 billion names are bots, artificial accounts, only used to enlarge the follower numbers of special people and simulate significance where it is only a big lie.
Very probably the numbers of some important accounts (think senile residents) will drop into the basement where it all started. :-)
I wonder how this will play out in terms of lawsuits. You have the Reeeee crowd running around sneering that Musk is losing advertisers and revenue. However, Twitter was selling ad space based on 'look at the reach you'll have because our platform is so popular!' Basically fraud. (How much money was the C-suite making again?)
Not that I am expecting the SEC to do anything but if this had ever been a legit business, they should.
^^^ DING DING DING DING ^^^
You don't need the SEC to do something about it. You can claim fraud and sue them directly if you are an advertiser. But you need something substantive to survive pre-trial motions. You can't just claim they lied. Elon needs to drop those receipts. Then it will be open season.
I've had a twitter account for over a decade and have never tweeted. I follow a few accounts for things like alternate side parking notifications, weather warnings, and a few others for various product or event announcements. Seems lame that I will now have to tweet at some unspecified interval in order to keep my account alive.
Mmmm….if you have log-in activity you are probably OK. I dont know that for sure, but if I was on the purge team, I would make sure we didnt purge folks like you, of which Im certain there are millions. Elon wont let that happen.
Make a Tweet.
First, THANK YOU. I was a little confused too.
Second … HOLY SHIT!!! 1.5 BILLION!!!
🤯
Now I understand what name space is.
I think it should drop followers on some VIP accounts. Powerful people were able to buy followers in order to look and become powerful.